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The code gives me flashbacks to working with the Windows API.

Cool project though and it's nice that they already have a handful of drivers.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm not saying it's bad at all, they're just using a very verbose naming convention that I don't particularly like working with.

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It looks like they have basically adopted the coding conventions of windows API code, down to the /++ --/ comments, style of declaring functions, uppercase types etc. Not that it's is a bad thing, just something I noticed.

Also things like KeCrashSystemEx look very much like KeBugCheckEx in Windows. There certainly is a lot of inspiration.

Edit: I see from Linkedin the OP is actually an ex-MSFTer who worked on Windows' HAL, so this makes sense. I wonder, tho, if this will present legal issues? Could someone say that it is an issue that the API is clearly inspired by the Windows API?

While there are the usual legal bizzarities ( http://blog.smartbear.com/apis/api-copyright-and-why-you-sho... ), there's no reason this should be any different than copyright of code. Design-inspired is not design infringement.

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